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Service Interruptions


1382: Science services behind eduVPN

De following Science services will be placed behind eduVPN. This means if you want to have continued access, you must use this VPN. De volgende Science services worden achter eduVPN gezet. DHZ/DIY SMTP (mail sending) LILOs Webmail If you have questions are experience problems with setting up eduVPN, please contact our helpdesk.

Updated Jan 30, 2025  ·  Wim Janssen · Created Nov 26, 2024

Resolved Reports


1185: Digital exam environment not available due to maintenance

Due to maintenance, the digital exam environment will not be available for several hours.

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Jul 25, 2016 · 

1183: Power distribution unit failed

Three cluster nodes powered down due to a failed PDU. After replacing the PDU, the nodes came up normally.

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Jul 5, 2016 · 

1182: Atlas.ti reports: license (almost) expired

When starting Atlas.ti, you get the message that the license expires in a few days or already has expired. There is, however, a three-weeks grace period during which the users will see a warning message but can still use the program normally. The vendor has promised to send the license June 24, and to send it earlier next years. The new license key can be requested from C&CZ.

Updated Oct 19, 2022  ·  Miek Gieben · Created Jun 17, 2016 · 

1181: License server reboot problem

Due to a problem with a new license the license server didn’t go down for the weekly reboot. When this came to attention, the server was rebooted and the problem was solved. Altera Ansys Accelrys Genesys Hdlworks Idapro Xilinx IntelCompiler Ingr Maple Mathematica Matlab MentorGraphics Mestrelab Topspin Orcad Originlab StateaseRlm

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created May 30, 2016 · 

1176: License server (lepelaar) reboot problem

Matlab (until 08:45), Origin (09:00), Mestrenova (9:20), Mathematica (9:30) and Orcad (11:20) service not started. Cause yet unknown.

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created May 25, 2016 · 

1180: Both Science VPNs down for short maintenance

The Science VPNs will be down for short maintenance, in order to switch the IP ranges. After this maintenance, there will be enough IP numbers available for the growing use of the new VPN. The old VPN has not been switched off yet, because Ubuntu 16.04 still has problems with the new VPN.

Updated Oct 19, 2022  ·  Miek Gieben · Created May 18, 2016 · 

1179: Gitlab temporarily unavailable

Because of a major security update that will be released tonight, GitLab will not be available. We will update GitLab on Tuesday morning. After that, gitlab.science.ru.nl will be available again.

Updated Oct 19, 2022  ·  Miek Gieben · Created May 2, 2016 · 

1178: Gitlab backup accidentially restored on production server

A backup file, dated “Fri Apr 29 05:07:04 CEST 2016” has accidentially been restored on our production GitLab server, where it should have happened on a test server. This caused all repositories, wiki’s, issues etc. to be reset to the state of today 5.07 AM. Commits pushed between 5 am and 2:30 PM should be pushed again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Updated Oct 19, 2022  ·  Miek Gieben · Created Apr 29, 2016 · 

1177: Server coma00 Monday morning reboot failed

The server comas1 did not start, probably due to some timing problems between the RAID array and OS. Solution: reboot - hardware reset.

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Apr 25, 2016 · 

1175: RU mailserver blacklisted, for Science too

Yesterday the RU outgoing mailserver smtpout3.ru.nl got listed on the SORBS blacklist of confirmed senders of spam and phishing mails. The reason probably is that recently many students fell for phishing mails, which made their username and password known to Internet criminals. These criminals use that to send spam and phishing mails. Because also the Science mailservers use that blacklist, we did not accept mail from the RU mailserver anymore. The senders received an error message: “Your message wasn’t delivered due to a permission or security issue....

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Apr 19, 2016 ·